Word: putted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bethlehem, Pa., in the noble Lehigh Valley, townsfolk turned out and Eastern music lovers poured in last week for the 32nd annual Bach Festival. To sing some of the greatest devotional music known to man, 143 housewives donned white dresses, 83 workmen put on their Sunday best and sat soberly together in the chancel of Lehigh University's Packer Chapel. As usual the audience overflowed comfortably on the lawn outside; as usual the opening chorale was bayed from the belfry by 16 sonorous trombones...
Unveiled in Manhattan's General Post Office, the Mailomat is about the size of a telephone booth, performs a similar service. You put your money in one slot, your letter in another, push a lever and the letter is automatically stamped and posted. Advantages are sanitation (no licking) and speed (no waiting at a post office window, no need for the letter to be canceled...
...been planning to float a rearmament loan of $1,500,000,000-three times as much as the British have spent buying U. S. securities since 1935. For some time he has been hinting that he could not raise all this money so long as Englishmen remained free to put their investment cash into U. S. securities. Meanwhile, since 1935, Englishmen, fearful of war, had shipped $500,000,000 to the U. S., now have about $1,000,000,000 invested in marketable U. S. securities. Silent pressure has gradually reduced the flow, since first of the year...
...Martin does not tinker with airplanes any more. He tells other people what he wants. When he returns to his office he is as unruffled and immaculate as before. A fussy dresser, he goes in for double-breasted suits in sturdy fabrics, insists that his tailors (Bell & Co., Manhattan) put cuffs on his coat sleeves, adorn his lapels and cuffs with little raised ridges that give the suits a ribbed appearance vaguely like the belly...
...highway at breakneck speed with his mother sitting unruffled beside him. But never does he go by airplane. Few years ago only stockholders in the company were Martin and Motorman Louis Chevrolet. But in 1934, with funds needed for expansion, 325,000 shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. were put on the market at $11.50 a share (current price: $34.625). Today, Martin remains well in control with some 37% of the stock in his hands, but the bankers who are now interested in his company have taken him out of the air. Because Martin is the Martin Company they...